IDENTICAL CHANGES 



Identical life, which is subject to human reason 

 clearly is a mechanical result of displacement in 

 universal material. And that displacement is the 

 result of ' ' one whole occult infinite life, ' ' universal 

 and incomprehensible. 



And of all forms that constitute organized mate- 

 rial, no two are the same form, and no two forms 

 that are not identical (similar) can manifest the 

 same universal life in the same way. Therefore, 

 the changes in material by force are based upon 

 the fundamental law, that all identities that have 

 life or organization of any degree must continually 

 exchange the matter of which they are composed. 



In many manifestations of force there is no 

 increase or decrease of mass. 



Therefore, nothing but void matter enters into 

 the transmission of these forces through vacuums 

 or between celestial bodies. 



And when the intensity of the manifestation is 

 subject to the law of the square, such manifesta- 

 tion must be a displacement of void matter in 

 plane layers. (Prop. 12, B. 3.) 



But the direction of a universal force cannot be 

 determined (Prop. 9, B. 3) ; it is in every direc- 

 tion. 



For in every direction lies the infinite. 



And yet no Pantheism can satisfy human reason, 

 and the largest possible aggregation of individual 

 identities cannot in human reason constitute an 

 identity that is the originator of the lesser iden- 

 tities. 



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